I would try reading some of the posts and discussions on the Ubuntu forums
to get a sense of some of the potential issues.
As pointed out in the above link, one potential problem is that older
wireless cards used a wider set of wireless channels than that used by newer
wireless cards as in the Mini 9. As a result, if your router is operating at
one of these channels the older laptop can connect fine (Windows or Ubuntu)
whereas the newer one may be unable to.
Other users reported problems based on whether the router was set to B, G,
or B + G. Check out the forums and check your router settings.
On 12/8/08, doris taylor <d_f_taylor at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Should I do this even though my dell studio laptop with Windows Home
> Premium connects to my wireless router just fine?
>> --- On *Mon, 12/8/08, yakker.yak <yakker.yak at gmail.com>* wrote:
>> From: yakker.yak <yakker.yak at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Connecting to a Wireless Network
> To: d_f_taylor at yahoo.com, "Linux on Dell desktops and notebooks
> discussion" <linux-desktops at dell.com>
> Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 5:40 PM
>> I would try to undo if possible what you've done so far in installing
> ndiswrapper and this other drive and focus on your wireless router and its
> settings. If this is a new system and you haven't installed or used it much,
> perhaps even doing a restore from the Ubuntu restore CD may be easiest.
>> Please note that it usually takes 10-20 seconds after you've logged in
> before the list of available wireless networks becomes populated and
> available as a drop-down list in the top panel, network manager.
>> In any case, there have been some discussions and good tips troubleshooting
> wireless connections on the Ubuntu forums. You can search the forums for
> "wireless mini 9" and should get some good leads to try. You may want to
> check out the following in particular:
>>http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=999794>>> On 12/8/08, doris taylor <d_f_taylor at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> The driver that was installed did not work at all. I couldn't even see my
>> network.
>>>> --- On *Mon, 12/8/08, yakker.yak <yakker.yak at gmail.com>* wrote:
>>>> From: yakker.yak <yakker.yak at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Connecting to a Wireless Network
>> To: d_f_taylor at yahoo.com, "Linux on Dell desktops and notebooks
>> discussion" <linux-desktops at dell.com>
>> Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 3:41 PM
>>>> Can you please explain why you downloaded the driver and ndiswrapped? Did
>> you find information somewhere online that suggested that you needed to do
>> this?
>>>> I ask because wireless networking should work out-of-the-box on the Mini 9
>> with Ubuntu pre-installed. All of the drivers and software are already
>> installed and you should not need to install anything else.
>>>>>> On 12/8/08, doris taylor <d_f_taylor at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>> I am really hoping someone can help me. I have just recently purhcased a
>>> Dell mini 9 with Ubuntu 8.04 preinstalled. After downloading the correct
>>> driver and running ndiswrapper the pc now sees my wireless network at home
>>> however it will only connect if I disable the WEP key on my Linksys WRT150N
>>> router. Does anyone have any ideas on getting it to connect to my secured
>>> network?
>>>>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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